Reporting · What gets reported · Component
The inventory
Everything produced, with what it contains — generated rather than remembered, because the estate is always larger than anyone thinks.
The deliverable
What it is
A reporting estate includes the things nobody calls reports: scheduled extracts, a spreadsheet somebody updates weekly, an email that goes out automatically.
The inventory is generated from the tooling rather than assembled by asking, since asking produces the reports people remember rather than the ones that exist.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The artefacts
Each report, dashboard or extract that exists.
3 attributes: Artefact · Type · Where
LearnThe maintenance
What keeping it running costs.
3 attributes: Maintenance · Effort per period · Maintained by
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The total manual reporting maintenance across an estate is frequently a full role nobody has named.
The other components in what gets reported
The purpose
Who asked for each and why, both of which age — because a report requested for a project that ended can go.
LearnThe duplicates
Where the same numbers appear in several places — which is common, consolidatable and a source of inconsistency.
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